 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The full sized Galileo mock up (without the II) was clearly seen and called by that name in "Metamorphosis." After that, it was usually just "shuttlecraft" when referred to in dialog.
I'm pretty sure there was an early 70's novelization of The Doomsday Machine. That's the earliest the shuttle may have been named.
Yep. it was novelized like every episode, but this version differed greatly from the aired episode in that Commodore Decker didn't do his suicide run and so the shuttlecraft wasn't used in the print story. Decker survived to the end of the tale, deciding not to command a starship again.
Too blurry to make out but it looks like the writing reads "Galileo" on the side of the hull. If there was a Galileo "Seven" then there must have been a fleet of Galileo shuttles. Galileo "Eight", "Nine", "Ten", etc. I never understood why they came up with Galileo II.
Edit: If "Galileo II" didn't appear until the third season then I would argue, it was a new "model" or "upgrade" of the original craft which is why a "II" was added. So it would have been Galileo II One, Two , Three, etc.
Nah, they just never changed the name on the mock up. There was only one shuttlecraft at a time named "Galileo." The other one we know specifically was the Columbus. In universe? Perhaps they replaced the shuttle at a starbase and rechristened it "Galileo." When Decker destroyed it, they got another, but slapped a II on it. Why? Maybe because they wanted to get ride of the "Galileo's are always destroyed" curse but Kirk really liked the name, so they just figured a "II" would be enough.
TRIVIA QUESTION
Which Star Trek TOS composer wrote the "Shuttlecraft" Theme and Launching Music that always accompanied the Shuttlecraft scenes in the various episodes?
Fred Steiner composed the music that was tracked onto the shuttlecraft launch in "The Galileo Seven," but it wasn't used as a theme after that. The next time we saw the launch was in "The Doomsday Machine," which had a new score by Sol Kaplan. In "The Immunity Syndrome," Steiner's opening music from "Mirror, Mirror" was used, but we didn't see the whole launch.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I am fine with the idea of new effects, but I wasn't thrilled with the results. CBS didn't pour the necessary money or time into it, so the finished work is lacking something. They don't look like they belong against the filmed scenes made 45 years earlier. They certainly don't look like effects they would have made "if they had the budget" since swooping camera angles and diving shuttles were beyond the technology of the era. I would have preferred something along the lines of the Next Generation HD effects redo: a faithful recreation of the original effects that look great in high def. Have them look like they were filmed at the time. I would have also been okay with making them look like new shots evey week instead of reused shuttle launches and the like, but (like Babyon 5 years earlier) it just looks like footage shot on film spliced with computer generated stuff. I prefer the old school effects. At least they were all shot on the same film stock at around the same time, so they don't seem out of place.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I enjoy TOS Remastered, personally; if they'd just dropped film-quality CGI in there it would've looked weird... and a bit too polished for a show which was often more than a little cheesy. The effects we did get were good enough, IMO. They accomplish their goal of staying mostly true to the original feel of the episodes (unlike the CGI additions to the original Star Wars Trilogy) while making the Trek Universe feel a little more fleshed out and expansive.
Another way TOS Remastered is light-years ahead of the Star Wars Special Editions is that the original versions of each episode are right there on the same disc. I believe that's the primary reason they decided to use the CGI to create shots that weren't possible at the time rather than a more faithful recreation; because unlike TNG the original effects shots were available to be scanned straight in to HD resolution.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Has any Trekker discussed how the introduction of the shuttlecraft around the production of 1st season episodes such as "The Conscience of the King" and "The Galileo Seven" had an inadvertently negative affect on Richard Matheson's story for "The Enemy Within"?
The dramatic 'race-against-the-clock' aspect of "The Enemy Within" to repair the transporter malfunction before Sulu and the landing party freeze to death on the planet below became invalidated by the creation of the shuttlecraft. The Enterprise crew could have simply sent a shuttlecraft down to the planet's surface prior to Sulu or any others getting frostbitten whilst Mr. Scott and the rest can figure how to fix the transporter.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
They conceived the transporter because they didn't have the money to make the ship land every week. Not to mention the designed of the Enterprise made landing the ship pretty difficult at best.
From what I understand, the plan was always for the Enterprise to have shuttles, but until AMT offered to build one in exchange for the rights to make a model kit out of it, they never could have afforded to make one, so it never came up in The Enemy Within. Since it was such an early episode, mentioning shuttles before introducing them to the audience would just risk confusion. Since The Galileo Seven was already in production, mentioning the shuttles and the hanger deck (and evening designing part of the set for them) in Conscience of the King made more sense.
It's easy enough to assume the severe atmospheric conditions on Alfa 177 made landing a shuttle to rescue Sulu and his landing party impossible. It's been more than good enough for me.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
